On the first day, the Book Fair brought together some 25,000 people

Some 25,000 people attended the eighth edition of the International Book Fair “Marcelo Martín Berbel”, which opened yesterday in the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) of this city..

Besides 2,500 primary and secondary students of the city visited the more than 70 bookstore and publisher stands that are in the globa, attached to the building of the MNB. The organizers estimate that more than 100 thousand people will visit the fair and they will attend lectures and book presentations that will run through Sunday.

Meanwhile, the showmen said that on the first day they had a good level of sales and they expect it to continue the same way throughout the weekend. “The climate accompanies us, which allows young people and families to come to the foodtruck space and take advantage of the gastronomic offer while watching outdoor shows,” commented the organization.

Today’s activities include the presentation of the book Las batlas del futuro by Augusto and Mateo Salvatto, creator of the Háblalo app in the Auditorium MNBA. In the same place, at 5 p.m. Javier Malosetti will offer a musical clinic and at 9:30 p.m. he will offer a recital.

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At 20, writers Florencia Canale and Gabriela Saidón will share the auditorium stage to present their books Pecadora. The passion of Camila O’Gorman and La Reina. The big dream of Manuel Belgrano, respectively.

In dialogue with LMNeuquén Canale, he anticipated that his book on the love story of Camila O’Gorman, brought up under the social and religious mandates in force at the time, and of Father Ladislao Gutiérrez, “is the story of a forbidden love and especially for the historical moment that this event took place at the time of Juan Manuel de Rosas ”.

He considered that this relationship “is the most thunderous Creole tragedy of the 19th century and perhaps in our national history”.

Canale has become a leading author in the genre of historical novel that tells the story of the intimacy of famous men and women from Argentina’s past. She is the author of Blood and Desire. The passion of Juan Manuel de Rosas and Encarnación Ezcurra, Salvaje. Urquiza and his wives, among others.